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A Bill for an act to amend an act Entitle an act ^Regulating Elections^ Approved January 10th 1829.
Be it Enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Representatives in the General assembly, That the next Election for the Representatives to Congress in this State Shall be held on the first Monday in August 1837 ^and^ on the first Monday of August every two years thereafter, the Judges of the General
Election Shall be Judges of the Election for members to Congress, and said Election Shall be conducted and regulated according to the act to which
this is amendment, and so much of said act as requires the Election of Representatives
to Congress to be held on the first Monday of August 1836 be and the same is hereby Repealed,
any law to the contrary not with standing2
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1John D. Hughes introduced HB 124 in the House of Representatives on January 2, 1836. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on January 8 without amendment. The House refused
to engross the bill and read it a third time by a vote of 12 yeas to 33 nays, with
Abraham Lincoln voting nay.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 200, 213, 254.
2Section twenty-six of the 1829 law governing elections stipulated that on the first
Monday in August 1831, and on the first Monday in August 1832, and on the first Monday
in August biennially thereafter, there was to be held an election for the House of Representatives. This bill seemingly represented an effort to simplify the complicated election
schedule. In 1839, the General Assembly passed an act that accomplished this by repealing section twenty-sixth and replacing it with a
schedule much like that proposed in this bill.
“An Act Regulating Elections,” 10 January 1829, The Revised Laws of Illinois (1829), 67.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 115, HB 124, GA Session: 9-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,